Question

Cultural Variability in Gender Roles - Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist who earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College and was there advised by Franz Boas, found a different pattern of male and female behavior in each of the cultures she studied in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea in the 1930s. These were also different from gender role expectations in the United States at that time. What “contrasting personalities” or different gender roles did Mead document among the Tchambuli?

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Mead found a different pattern of male and female behaviour in each of the cultures she studied, all different from gender roles expectedin the United nations. She found among the arapesh a tempreagent for both male and female that was gentle,responsive and cooperative. Among the bIwan both males and females were violent aggressive seeking power and position. For the Tcambuli male and female temperaments were distinct from each other the woman being dominant and managerI also and the male less responsible and more emotionally dependenthe.